SOCIETY HOROSCOPE CRAZE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3333, 9 August 1926, Page 7

SOCIETY HOROSCOPE CRAZE.

■ 'Have you bud your horoscope taken 7 ‘ That is flip question oi the hour in fashionable London just now. A ‘‘Sunday Chronicle” representative, stimulated by tlie thought that life would be pleasanter if be knew wbat was coining in advance, iv-ul his own horoscope cast, and here gives an account of the result of the operation. It was not difficult to arrange. I rang up on the telephone and gave my age, the year, the month, the day, and the hour of it, and also the place in which 1 was born. I did not give my name, address, family, or profession. • 1 “You shall have it in a fortnight, ’’ .su'd the voice on the telephone. “If you want a life-horoscope it will cost you seven guineas. If you want a horoscope lor one year it will cost you three guineas.” I chose the latter.

I waited patiently for a fortnight, and then sent for the chart of my future. It-came sixteen pages of type-written matter threaded together with a piece of I black ribbon. The outside page gave a rough chart of the heavens as they were (or ought to have been) at the time of my birth. Underneath was a square of interesting lines like a draughtsboard, covered with a number of the oldest Hieroglyphics in the world. They looked like an attempt by an intoxicated spider to write short-hand. The first inside page began with an impressive red ink headline:— Notes on the Horoscope of a Male, Born December 1, 1899. 7.30 pirn. Wimbledon, Then followed : A map cast for the Time of birth shows the sign Cancer rising on the Eastern Horizon with Part of Leo intercepted in the Ascendant. The rising planet is the Moon, placed in Scorpio, while the Sun and five other planets are in the sign Sagittarius. Whew! However .... grit your teeth : Ihe preponderance of planets in this sign, which is of the fiery Triplicity, shows the nature to bo impulsive and ardent, impatient and enthusiastic. As it is also of mutable quality the native (it sounds like any oyster!) will find it difficult to stick for very long at any one tiling, and once his mind is made up to any course he will be all of a fret and fume until he sees it put into practice.

I won’t bore you with the rest of my character as outlined by the seer who never saw me. But friends of mine say that the delineation is quite uncannily true - especially a few rude ‘ bits later on that I do not propose to reveal to the -world!

Nor will 1 bore you with the prophecies of the advantageous journey I am to make in February, nor my love affairs in July, nor the type of a woman I am to marry, nor the number and sex of lire children lam to have. But to continue : Whenever possible and whenever a choice arises, make use of the number 9 or 4 or multiples thereof. Many applications of this will occur upon a little consideration. Easy! When Igo to Monte Carlo next month I can just as simply lose my j onoy on the multiples of four and nine as I can on any other numbers. You must defer, when .possible, ar.y Iresh enterprises or important interview to a Monday, or, failing that, a Thursday, and use nine in the first case and four in the second in the fixing of the hour. Not so easy. What would the editor say if I put off writing this article, for example, until 9 o’clock next Monday, because this last Thursday was inconvenient ? Or if the Prime Minister said he would be interviewed on Tuesday'at tea-time instead of dinner-time on Thursday, and 1 refused to interview him because Thursday was my unlucky day l Now we go straight into the Middle Ages.You must have a talisman of the moon, of silver, set with a moonstone, and enclosed in nine silver sides, and you should make a point of wearing it on

every occasion. Not a bit easy. But wait a minute! I supply such talisman at the exact hour when the majority of good aspects obtain between the. powerful planets in your horoscope and those in the heavens

at the time. Price 2 guineas. Quite easy, after all hut a tittle sordid, this commerce. However: j Sue!) a talisman is. by its very fabric, unique 'to you, a focus of beneficent planetary rays, and a magnet. o crood fortune.

Obvii us'y it’s worth it think of tin cost of electrical sun baths in coin pn risen.

Your fortunate perfume is jasmine. How on earth did they discover that ? I don’t know it myself. I don’t think I Slave ever smelled the stuff in my life. Your fortunate jewels are the pearl, (he moonstone, and the crystal. Purples

and silver greys should be introduced into his personal wear.

Now, what do you know about that ? Here 1 am in a silver grey tie and a blue suit with thin purple lines. Now comes a really difficult and embarrassing command.

Before entering upon intimate relations. either of business or friendship, make a note of-the following days. Cultivate people born on or about March > 24. July 3, July 20, November 17, December 1. December 21. Avoid people horn on or about Juno 16, December 13, January 20. How on earth can 1 go up to people, with whom I. am about to enter upon intimate relations, and say: “Here, when were you bom?” And if they say. for example, “June 16,” run away and leave them ? You will live slightly beyond > the average, and should reach 74 in good health and spirits. A very strong tendency will he to get highly strung, and into a somewhat febrile state of nerves if baulked when your mind is set on anything. Idleness will be of a rather sharp and sudden nature, but will pass off quickly. You will possibly finish your life westward. Well, there you are! Time alone will prove. Seriously speaking, however, some of the seer’s comments are remarkably accurate. Here and there is a tinge of obvious clap-trap. Here and there an absurd credulity is required. I think, however, if only for the amusement It was well worth 'the money.

The problem of the ' distinction between a violin and a fiddle has been lucidly discussed lately by Mr Ted Robinson, an American journalist. There is no difference, he suggests, between the two instruments until they are played. A violinist wears evening dress, has an accompanist, and plays classical pieces. A fiddler usually has no collar, dispenses'with an accompaniment, holds the instrument in the crook of his elbow, rather than under his chin, beats time heavily with his boot sole, and. plays tunes. So Mr Robinson reaches this ultimate and definite conclusion : The difference between a violin and a,fiddle is; that one. is played by a violinist and the other by a fiddler. When in the early summer, English gardens betel to ■-bloom and to scent the air with tbe’r f-nerance, millions of flowers from Canadian seeds make an important contribution to the beauty of +be sea«»ou. More and more England hj _turmng to the rich sod and warm o! nmt'> ef Vancouver-Island, off the TH+’sb CelumVa coast, ter her supplies ef reeds. This market was first opened up years aero. : It began with sweet peas, seeds are now prodnopd in large, bulk, and there is an increasing demand for rare alpine and rock plant seeds.